Faculty Honors
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature has selected Bloomington resident Scott Russell Sanders, a distinguished professor of creative writing at Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences, to receive the 2009 Mark Twain Award for his "distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature." Previous winners include Toni Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Jim Harrison, William Maxwell, Wright Morris, Harriet Monroe, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jonis Agee. The award ceremony will take place at the society's annual meeting in East Lansing, Mich., on May 8, 2009, and will feature a panel devoted to Sanders' work.
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Four Indiana University Bloomington faculty members have been awarded a $150,000 grant to develop a model interdisciplinary approach that prepares graduate students to be reflective practitioners who base their teaching on appropriate learning theory and revise it based on evidence of student learning.
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Indiana University Bloomington biologists Thomas Kaufman and Michael Wade were elected this week to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, respectively. The elections are among the highest honors American scientists can receive. Wade will officially be inducted into the American Academy at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 11. Kaufman will be inducted into the National Academy at the organization's next annual meeting (April 2009) in Washington, D.C.
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Indiana University's Meredith West, graduate adviser, ombudsman and professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Eliot R. Smith, professor of psychology and cognitive science in the College of Arts and Sciences, along with John Mikesell, director of the Master of Public Affairs Program and professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, have been named Chancellor's Professors.
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Chen Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, received the International Society on Infant Studies' Distinguished Early Career Contribution Award.
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Faculty awards for outstanding teaching, research and service to Indiana University will be presented on 2008 Founders Day, Sunday (March 30) at 4:30 p.m. during an invitation-only event for the award recipients and their family and friends, in Alumni Hall, Indiana Memorial Union.
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